The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
If you wanted to know your grandparents or grandchildren back in the 17th and 18th centuries, your best bet was to live...
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
In 1763, Jonathan Moulton of Hampton, N.H., took his prize oxen north to Portsmouth, N.H. He decorated the impressive 1,400-pound animal with...
The New Deal put tens of millions of people to work and changed the landscape in every New England city and town....